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When I set up this blog last week it displayed a photograph of me dressed in dark clothes with a similar background making me obscure. I suddenly realised by just looking at that photograph how I had been hiding in the shadows. That is not me anymore, I said to myself. The readers of this blog need to see the real me now that I have made the decision to share my story and show the readers who I am.

In the background of the new picture you see a pond that we built ourselves in the garden of the school in Fanthyttan. The pond symbolises for us peace and tranquillity. It was built to commemorate all the children that were victims of the tsunami in 2004. We had a special day when we invited many people that had lost family in that tragedy along with a Buddhist monk, who blessed our pond and what it represented for us. Many who attended that ceremony gave the feedback that the experience had given them a sense of peace and an opportunity to move on with their lives. That day also made me realise what I did not want to become and I wanted to work harder towards developing a place within where I could find greater acceptance for others.

It brings me to a comment one of you made on the blog regarding the sceptics. You said “I pity them”. I do not know if I pity them, but I feel compassion, because of the harm they do to themselves. Once we cross a line and really begin to believe that we are the guardians of truth and everybody else is wrong that is a very frightening place to be.

I have stepped back and observed the sceptics that have hunted me down and one of those organisations that I talked of in my first posting are called Vetenskap och Folkbildning (VoF). For many years they have waged a campaign against anybody, from whatever walk of life or profession that do not think like them. They have this amazing network where as soon as somebody posts something in opposition to them they can pick it up almost immediately and before they can even think or absorb the message being given they go into attack or defence. For me this is a clear symptom of fear.

I do feel empathy for those that joined this organisation with good intentions with the belief that their contribution would make a difference to the quality of people’s lives (Yes, education and information is very important). I wonder what has happened to their voice. Do they have the courage to challenge their board, to question the value and the ethics of their behaviour?

Internet gives us the possibility to spread the word worldwide within seconds, so I think it is the responsibility of every individual to think about how they use this resource. Not just members of organisations like VoF. I think it would be good for all of us to stop and think about how we use the internet and ask ourselves the question: Do I use it to attack and humiliate others? I too have opinions about things, but I have never posted them on the internet in an adverse or negative way to hurt anyone.

However, an e-mail that I sent to one of the sceptics with good intentions he himself chose to post on the internet to boost his own campaign of propaganda.

When I think of VoF, I think it is tragic that the skill and intelligence they have collectively is not being used in a creative way, but they as an organisation have their ideology to follow and that is their choice. That is why I have no wish to defend myself against them or attack them. These are just my observations.

I hope those within this organisations who have good intentions find the strength to question their leaders, because I am of the opinion that VoF could do a very good job for the future of Sweden, but for that to happen certain members have to move away from the mind-set that entraps them.

I only have my own truth and I can just share my own thoughts about life, the world and spirituality. We all have our individual truth about life and how it should be conducted. For those who are interested I offer a challenge, we should create a collective recourse whereby we can come together, unite and create a foundation that will give us a voice within society and support us, the believers in the spirit world and alternative methods of healing so that we can work in peace and also learn to question ourselves. For me it does not matter how any of us believe in or see God. Whatever form that takes, it deserves respect! Together we can contribute unique knowledge and work together. We that are supposed to be colleagues following a similar truth must also enter into self-examination and stop attacking one another for the differences we have in order to promote our own truth. It serves no purpose to tread on one another.

If we could unite and create a positive resource we could begin to learn so much from one another and in so doing this higher intelligence we profess to work for would be given a far greater voice.

My vision of the future is that science in whatever form can work alongside each other. That includes the science of spirituality and personal belief. When I work with spirit I go into areas of my mind that go beyond logic and intellect. Sometimes it works very well and sometimes it takes time before the result can be realised. The result in itself is the proof without me quite understanding the mechanism in play, because this mechanism of the mind is yet to be understood by science.

For those of you that has never heard of this organisation, Vetenskap och Folkbildning before, I believe they have the same right as I do to have a voice in society, so if you find it important to understand both sides feel free to go and knock on their door and hear what they have to say so you can form your own opinion, forum.vof.se/viewforum.php?f=38

Since opening this blog the sceptics have been complaining that I do not let them in, but this is my blog with my thoughts and I made a promise when I said to: Come and step forward and share your story. Do not stand alone. They have their own forums where they can express their opinions freely. Go and discover them for yourself, if that is your wish.

I do not have the truth for anybody else. I just have my own, which has to be updated almost every day and that is another part of my never-ending journey.

I posted the first part of my story yesterday. For me I have realized that this is going to be a never-ending journey. I have read all of your comments to my story and it is impossible for me to reply to all of them, but from my heart I thank you for the wonderful support you have given.

My purpose with this blog is not to create a debate forum. Its’ purpose is to create a meeting place for people who have been mobbed or abused on the internet or have witnessed others close to them being treated in the same way. It is to encourage people to step forward and tell their story in a place of safety.

This blog is for people with a positive voice, free from attack or abusive comments. Hopefully we can come together and learn to grow together. We all have our dreams and a pathway that we wish to follow and as long as it is not dishonest I encourage you all to follow your dreams, because in so doing you can understand the purpose of your life. My purpose is to work as a medium.

I am not prepared to accept derogatory comments made by sceptics and I do not want this to become a mudslinging contest. That would not achieve anything. However, I look forward to receive comments from anyone with an open mind who wish to share.

My dream is that we collectively can build bridges and create a positive dynamic so that we can consolidate and perhaps one day become a purposeful voice. This is what I mean by the words “a never-ending journey”.

Should you have a story to share, but do not wish to make it public in any way feel free to send it to us and it will be kept in the strictest of confidence. It would not be released to any form of media. Perhaps you sharing your experiences can help us move forward and build bridges into the future.

It is said that Börje Peratt and Torbjörn Sassersson writes articles on my behalf (It has even been claimed that they write my private e-mails!). This is a falsehood. I write all my own articles, but yes, I do need help with the translation into Swedish.

However, I would like to offer them my personal thanks for the help and support they have offered me. That has inspired me to remain steadfast and follow my truth. Whatever has been said about them on the internet I have great respect for them, that they dare to step forward and make a stand and speak their truth. Of course they have their different ways of telling it, but how they choose to debate is their individual choice.

My name is Terry Evans. I would like to talk about internet mobbing and net hatred that seems to be the topic of discussion in the media at the moment. I have myself been subjected to a very aggressive form of internet mobbing over a period of many years. My purpose with this article is not to attack or to go into defence, but to tell my story from a spiritualist mediums perspective.

My road to mediumship started at the age of 22. As a medium I believe in life after death, which in simple terms means that once clinical death occurs the human soul departs to another dimension that to a spiritualist is known as the spirit world. Our belief is that these departed souls can communicate through a medium’s mind. This is called mental mediumship and this is my way of believing in God.

During all the years that I have worked with mediumship people from every walk of life have consulted me for guidance and with the wish to have contact with a loved one. The way in which I work as a medium means I do not determine the end result. When I work I am just a neutral channel; I pass on to the recipient the information I receive from the spirit contact and it is the recipients choice whether they wish to accept the information or not.

Anything connected with mediumship has always been regarded as controversial. To consult someone like me is seen as being taboo and if you look through history there has always been discrimination regarding these subjects. The discrimination towards mediums and people that work with alternative things continues to this day and yet countless people consult people like me for help. The work I do along with many others can never be eradicated. What many sceptics do not understand is that people have a mind of their own and the right to choose for themselves. Truth is an individual choice.

Science has yet to create a model to disprove the existence of a spirit dimension. All they have is conjecture.

The first time I became conscious of net hatred was in Sweden, when I was told that one of my clairvoyant demonstrations had been secretly filmed and put on the internet by so called sceptics. Shortly after that I began working for a TV program called “Förnimmelse av mord”. That was when the sceptic’s crusade began in earnest. My name was frequently mentioned on the internet, especially by members of two well-known organizations. These are two organizations that are closely linked to one another and some of their members have waged this hate campaign over a long period of time to defame my credibility as a medium and a person. They use the internet as a tool and many of them adopt different pseudonyms in order to protect their identity, but there are also those who have been honest enough and stepped forward and shown their real identity, but it does not change the fact that they are still involved and conspire to intimidate those who do not think as they do.

They have slandered me in chat rooms, mocked me on various websites, secretly filmed and recorded my clairvoyant demonstrations and posted them on the internet, attacked my facebook site and up until quite recently there was a facebook site called “Terry Evans Ovänner”, which was suddenly removed.

They have also attempted to sabotage even further by contacting people, schools, organizations and different venues that I use for my work and questioned why mediums are allowed to use these resources when doing public work.

They have even used clips from my work on TV and manipulated them in quite an unpleasant way and posted them on Youtube to achieve their purpose: humiliation.

I have been accused of many things; of extorting money for those who are in grief, being a charlatan, a fraud, cynical liar and a detestable trickster. I have even been compared to Adolf Hitler etcetera. They are even commenting that the people who come to my clairvoyant demonstrations and who visit my course centre are uneducated people that cannot think for themselves. I find that my accusers making these comments display an extremely narrow minded attitude and are very condescending. It smells very heavily of elitism.

I have talked to many people that have been a victim of this elitism, not just other mediums, but people from all walks of life whose lives have been very badly affected because of the sceptics harassments on the internet.

I feel it is very important that people are questioned and I believe that constructive criticism plays a very important part in our lives, but at what point does criticism cross a line and become the terror tactics of a mob?

Net hatred is a sickness of our time and because technology has developed so quickly it is apparent that no forethought was given to the consequences of an open forum such as the internet. Is there a solution? Can we implement legislation that will protect the human rights of the individual even on the internet?

The consequences of internet hatred are already staring us in the face, for instance the teenager who takes their own life because of the internet mobbing or people who have been psychologically broken down, having their quality of life taken away.

What has happened to the ethics and morality of organizations or individuals who are using these methods? What has happened to their self-respect when they deem it necessary to pervert the information available to spread their propaganda?

I would like to encourage those of you that have also been bullied to step forward and tell your story, because a collective voice is much stronger than an individual voice, in so doing we no longer need to stand alone and be a victim of our fear. When we are afraid we give the bullies control, we give them the power they need and that is what they feed off of. When this fear takes over we are unable to make a stand to protect our human rights.

I believe your contribution could take this debate one step further. As a group, people will listen to us, but if we hide away no one will ever know our story and the perpetrators of internet mobbing will never be made to be accountable. What I have been subjected to has affected my life. I would be lying if I said it had not and that is why I now feel it is time to act and tell my story, because if I hide away I give them permission to continue. That is the choice I have made. I will not surrender to the bullying tactics of the mob. I will not surrender my dignity by disappearing, will you?

I have followed the law and made formal complaints. For those of you who need support and advice there are alternatives. You can turn to the new organization Nätvaro (http://du2.pentagonvillan.se/index.php/projekt/naetvaro) and perhaps they can help you, but there are also other resources available.

It is time that we came together and became a united voice, so that we collectively can take the next step.